Wife just txt me to say the neighbor was face timing my youngest to see what and where he was and told him get home and turned the phone and showed showed him the mountain lion in his driveway.

Me I'm a skeptical individual when I hear that from most people but if my son saw it I believe it. I know they have passed through and been caught on trails cams in the state In the past but we don't typically have them.

I expect just passing through but figured I could get some education. Will they get into a dirt hole for coyote? Boys have been planning some adc sets and don't want to deal with catching a big cat. I don't like leting bobcat go as it is.

Extremely bold, unintelligent animal and crazy easy to catch if you’re in front of them.

Put a trap in front of them and they’ll trip over themselves to get caught in it.

I generally pull my traps if I see fresh sign. They are a real pain to release especially if you are set with a drag. Here they make a big circle so once they are out of the area all is good for quite a while. On my bobcat walk throughs I use two traps and set them 16 to 18 inches pan to pan. Lions will generally step over both pans on the way through. I did catch a 50 or so pound kitten a couple of years ago. Only lion I have caught in 40 plus years,

They seem to be moving this year we had one south of town that had it’s picture taken swimming the White River more around then you think.

I'd like to catch just one

We have so many lions right now DWR is giving permits for free all year long to lower the amount !

Turning the whole state into experts on getting lions, except no one is getting lions LOL, everyone saying the DWR don't know anything about them, LOL

Yea they are out there and yea there is a lot of them, and yea curiosity will kill the cat, people are as dumb as they look sometimes, they just have to have patience and study up just a bit on how to attract them and take them, but no they don't have the time, they figure to drive all over and see one then take it out.

I say good for the cats, they are nicer looking in the winter any way and much easier to call or trap then as well !!

I'd like to eat some mountain lion meat.

My friend Dwight Scott used to raise relatively large number of mountain lions. Most he sold to either Idaho or Oregon, I can't remember which, for reintroduction. The rest he used to sell at the Lucasville Swap. I suspect a lot of mountain lions seen outside their normal range are pets that were let go or escaped.

Dwight had other bigger cats too. He's a cool dude and a good friend.

Keith

we have had them on Southern WI and it made it's way to ILL and got hit by a car near Rockford

they can move a long ways

we have also had WI wolves tracked over to Ohio

just started wondering if this may be why that fawn has been staying in the barn. not that I think it's that smart. Guess I have see. to much Disney as a kid..

Apparently, they love boxes.

No reintroduction in Oregon. We've always had a stable population. Since they ended hound hunting for them in 1994 they have increased ten-fold.

I would not worry about it. If those boys catch it tell them to call the game warden and let him deal with it.

Danny is right. If you catch one just call the authorities for help.
Several caught around our state over the years.
Mark Jine had a great post on here when he got a lion in one of his bobcat sets out in western Nebraska. Called the game and parks, they came out and did their thing. Tranquilized, took all the data they needed, mark got some pics with it, and no harm done on a species protected here with limited hunting opportunity.
Have a friend had same thing happen. Got a nice big lion in a bobcat sets. Called for help, they did their thing, he got pics with it, all was good.
Both held well in Bridger 3s, bait and a skunky lure same as for bobcats was the catch set.
Jim

Last I seen they have a season in the Black Hills Forest district but no restrictions in the rest of the state here open all year, we had open season on wolves east river years back until the Feds got involved.

This beast showed up in a walk through last February.
I didn't realize lions will breed any time of year. It was like turning loose a bobcat.
That's a number 3 Bridger for reference. There where no adult tracks in the area. I left carcasses near the site but I'm pretty sure the cat had been abandoned for some time.

That's what I would do. They have connections to get with people who could tranquilize it.

I don't know if we can get him to post them but Boone has some pretty cool pics of cats he's caught

I wish Bill Applegate would of wrote a book on his career trapping mountain lions. Always enjoyed our conversations.

For me a big cat would be the pinnacle of things I would trap

Applegate was the man